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When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Beginning Draw Drawing Everything Feel Got Me Paper Piece See White I See I Feel

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I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Always Between Colors Edge Felt Painted Somehow Two

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One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Bought Did Doing Drawing Drawings Feel First Flower Just Kept Leaves Like Lot Make Me Other Paris Somehow Spring Thinking

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My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Drawings Good Half Happen Hour Minutes Quick Then

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Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Done Draw Drawing Each Found Meaning Plant See Want I See

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I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Because Better Coat Color Density Each Get Gets Like Oil Paint Richer Surface You

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My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Even Everywhere Exist Forms Geometric Interact Just See Sense Them You

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In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Almost Antique Because Collage Coming Did First Late Like Liked Lot Making Old Old Stuff Out Paris Really Separate Something Started Stuff Wall Wanted White

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I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Bird Book Boy Colors Ever Eye Gave Got Grandmother Kid Like Little Me Over Since Trained

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Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Art Geometry Joy Want

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 31st, 1923

Died: December 27th, 2015

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